Odd Buildings: Historic Church Turned Into Condos

The Mission is full of buildings that give one the sense that something interesting is happening inside. We call them Odd Buildings, and this is an occasional series on their stories.

A young man in a red t-shirt walks down Dolores Street on a sunny recent morning. As he nears the corner of 15th Street, he stops. He’s not the only one. Several people are already staring at the huge hole where the First Southern Baptist Church used to be before 1993 when a fire destroyed it. Near the hole a house – the old parsonage – lays on beams. Neighbors have watched it moved back and forth around the hole while the workers dig out a basement for it.

That’s not all that’s happening. After a long journey of false starts, a project is underway to put 13 condominiums of one and two bedroom units at 200 Dolores – 10 in the place where the big hole exists and three in a newly renovated parsonage. Construction should be finished in a year, workers said. TO READ MORE CLICK HERE